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Mark Your Calendars: 2010 Cultivating Women's Leadership
Join us to explore how to liberate your capacities and gifts to help transform the world.Experience how profoundly we women can grow each other.
"This retreat was one of the most worthwhile steps I hav
Posted on February 2, 2010 at 3:15pm —
Michael Pollan on Oprah
But, Michael Pollan is also a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and the recipient of numerous journalistic awards. He has sered as executive editor of Harper’s Magazine and he's a professor of Sc… Continue
Posted on January 28, 2010 at 11:33pm —
Rethinking the Inedible
Posted on January 22, 2010 at 10:05am —
64 Ways to Eat Well
Rule # 19:
If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.
Rule # 20:
It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.
Rule # 60:
Treat treats as treats.
Order up the rest of the rules… Continue
Posted on January 20, 2010 at 3:10pm —
A Life-Affirming Society
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we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dear Friends, Community Organizers, Visionaries, Superheroes, and everyone who loves life:
This letter has four parts:
What's Going On
What's In It for Us?
What Do I Do?
What's the Plan?
What's Going On:
We're all aware of the political, economic, and environmental events converging at this historical crossroads. Even though most of us know that we could solve every solvable problem on the planet for 10% of what we spend on the world's military, the world seems stuck. Like so many of you, we've wondered for years how a revitalized democracy or a nonviolent mass movement or even love itself could ever take hold.
But during this past year, hope for a brighter future has surprised and shocked and sometimes even frightened us.
A very improved consensus governance system called Dynamic Self-Governance, or Sociocracy is a missing puzzle piece, a catalyst that will enable us to effectively and efficiently work together. Every week one of us sees a new application of Sociocracy, a new project, a new way to bring humanity together.
And we have created an exciting, elegant, plan for a sustainable future. It's based on the nerve-like, deeply interwoven network of life and friendship in which we all move. The human body politic has been suffering in its sleeping, but it starts waking now with you.
It's time to take a massive Next Step Together. That step is to powerfully connect everyone who chooses a sustainable future for the planet into a cohesive global decision-making structure—starting with the people you already know.
This is the next evolutionary step. We might never take it. Or we might take it after we've killed billions more people and wrecked essential planetary life support systems. Or we might take it now.
We've combined the most essential and practical strategies for building a sustainable, just earth. Now let's implement them. Really.
What's In It For Us?
A life.
A practical alternative to empire, terrorism, corporatism, racism, classism, pollution, starvation, poverty, war, violence, rape, neglect, madness, disease, isolation, fear and powerlessness
Safety in numbers
Fun
Community
Meaning
Security
Freedom
Sustainability
HOPE
Your fair share of power -- the deepest democracy imaginable
A job -- we are all working on it and we need to and plan on get paid soon
An honest shot at creating and relaxing in a just world -- No kidding!
The knowledge that you acted powerfully when you were called to
What Do I Do?
a) Learn more about the Next Step Together at: http://nextsteptogether.net
b) Join the Next Step Together group on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24568801853 Then, using this letter, invite everybody you know to do the same. (Got issues with Facebook? See below.) We'd like a million people in the Facebook group by October 8. (Call the person who send you sent you this letter if you need support accessing Facebook!)
c) Get involved with the Implementation Circle process. We need local organizers, web designers, programmers, economists, event planners, activists, donors, thinkers, writers. Everyone. You have needed skills, resources and people to bring into the circle. Call or write us!
What's The Plan?
a) Gather massive numbers of already connected people in the Next Step Together Group on Facebook.
b) Implement a sociocratic governance system, connecting every Friend Group into an elegant, organic decision making structure, creating a super-majority of people who are willing to focus their power for the greatest good. Each of us will govern with equal power.
c) Once we have critical mass, we'll collectively consent to our next, efficient, giant steps using all the creativity, innovation and skill we have. We'll act together, nonviolently, in overwhelming numbers, and make pivotal, systemic change quickly.
This is the fastest way to create the world we want.
It seems wildly optimistic, because the human family is drowsy, just waking up. But, in their hearts, everybody really wants a safe, fun, fair world. Everybody. At least 20% of us are already ready, eager, and gathering for this. 60% of the population will join us quickly if the 20% of us with active hope and vision act powerfully now. The 80% will then offer the remaining 20% consideration and kindness no sane person could refuse, because, in sociocracy, everyone must consent to every major policy.
Welcome to the beginning of giant, fast, smart love power!
We look forward to seeing your wonderful face in the Next Step Together group!
Very hopefully,
Tim Anderson, Teri D. Ciacchi, Bradley K. Ehrlich & Robyn Lynn
If you're ever on the shore of the Big Lake (Superior) check us out. Meanwhile, keep up the interesting posts.
Greetings from 3 meters below sea level,
Job.
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